How do you pronounce "Piezo"?

[dave-chaulk]

I've always said it as pie-zo (like, the delicious food, then zo),
but on a youtube video I say a guy saying it like pye-ay-zo (delicious food, pirate for "yes", and then zo).

thoughts?

 

[hover]

it's Pie - Zoh.

 

[wabbit]

it's pee-zo ... like the liquid

 

[elgecko]

Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter)

 

[UncleFluffy]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=piezo&submit=Submit

alternatively:

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so both seem to be accepted

 

[wabbit]

I guess we seem to have a difference of opinions here. I am getting my pronunciation initially from college where I took Electronics Engineering Technology. Piezoelectric devices, like crystals, were always pronounced to us as pee-zo and everyone in the industry that I have ever talked to pronounces it the same way.

 

[elgecko]

It's Greek apparently.

Do we have any Greeks in the house?

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter)

+1 That's how the factory Piezo reps I used to work with pronounced it. They had nothing to do with pickups but it's the same thang

 

[RadioMasterDude]

Couldn't be like... pee-eh-zo (piezo)? That's how I would pronounce it in the spanish way...

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

I've always said Pee-Zo.

 

[Howlin' Hanson]

Pee-a-zo (where "a" is pronounced like the letter)

This.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Sorry always pronounced it Pea Zoh.

Then again I also pronounce the wood as When Gee.
Dirk

 

[GeneralElectric]

Pee-a-zo.

 

[doctorjazz]

Sorry always pronounced it Pea Zoh.

Then again I also pronounce the wood as When Gee.
Dirk

Same here. I was led to believe that was in fact the correct pronunciation of "wenge," although the first time I encountered the word I pronounced it "winj."

 

[Joe Gress]

Pee-zee-oh!

 

[Pilgrim]

Toe-may-toe?
Toe-mah-toe?

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[dave-chaulk]

Well played, pilgrim, well played.

I think all possible options have been covered, here...

 

[elgecko]

Okay, I think we've got all possible permutations of the pronunciation of "piezo".

Greeks! Paging all Greeks!

 

[bongomania]

Not a Greek, but +1 for pee-A-zo. I'd accept pee-zo, but I'd frown at PI-zo.

 

[peetey]

Okay, I think we've got all possible permutations of the pronunciation of "piezo".

Greeks! Paging all Greeks!

Front and center!

pee-e(as in end)-zo

the word as I know it means "to apply pressure, to lean on, etc"